Hokan Lars Ojert joined Valeritas in January 2007. Hokan has over 18 years of diabetes sales and marketing experience, most recently with Sanofi and its predecessor companies. During his time at Sanofi, Hokan held numerous leadership positions within Sales and Marketing. His career has afforded him the experience of launching, selling and marketing products such as Amaryl^®, Apidra^®, Lantus^®, the OptiClik^® and the Solostar^® pen technologies. He was the U.S. marketing lead on the commercialization of the OptiClik^® Pen and was involved with the pre-market development of the Solostar^® pen technology. Along with Hokan's vast sales and marketing experience within the diabetes arena, he also brings significant recruiting and hiring capabilities to our organization. Hokan led a sales-force scale up initiative within the Diabetes Sales Division in the Southeast United States. Hokan is a graduate of the University of Scranton (Scranton, Pennsylvania), where he earned a B.S. degree in Management.